St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-28
THE SOULS VICTORY.
Rev. M. Id. Shutters runDM..Life
Not a Vale of Fears.


Not a Vale of Tears.
Rev. NJ d. Shutter last evening, at the
Church of the Redeemer, spoke from Gal.
vi; 9.
There is Il sense in which WEAKNESS is in
evitable. Physical or mental toll will at last
leave body or mind exhausted. Rest must
come TO restore the iaded powers. In such
WEAKNESS there is no moral delinquency 1t
is not such WEAKNESS that calls forth this ad-
moniton 1t is directed at what we mean
when we speak of becoming tired of any
thing. man wearies of his work when he
loses his interest in it, when he ceases 10 find
inspiration in il, and can no longer devote to
il the energies of his soul.
Do not became tired of well doing. Never
lose your interest in 1t. Meyer let the work
of well-doing cease to interest and inspire
you and call forth all Your powers. Turn not
away sick and Disguised. Hard as are your
moral tasks, they are the only real ones Of
life. Whoever sows in the fields OF righteous
ness is sure to thrust his sickle into the bar
vest
We may wrest some elements of help from
the very circumstances that dshearten us.
To the soul whose moral needle is true, there
can be no contrary winds. When depression
comes from physical causes, as ii often does,
Il simpler diet will often cure backslidnG:
little exercise in the open air will frequently
conquer the ''unpardonabe SIM When it
be some truth in the criticism that our best
friend did not dare to tell US. Find it and
profit by it. When depression comes from
feeing that we are not appreciated. let us re-
member that our moral duties are not thereby
altered ait all | believe that Jesus Christ felt
less like a conQueror when the multitude
paved his way into Jerusalem with palm
branches, than when he trod the path to Cal
vary alone. Some times we become discour-
aged when one whom we trusted has fallen.
Every rogue ought to make honest men.
strengthen the foundations and build more
massive the walls Of your characters, as
frazier structures all about you go down daily
into ruins. Let US not be weary in wel-doing,
for our work is not isolated. No man liveth
to himself We are bound in the bundle Of
life together. The humblest and obscurest
person who does righteous deed or thinks q
noble thought, lifts the entire level of human
life. Every ones work is connected with the
larger work of God. Nothing is lost.
Every fragment will be gathered up,
and find its place. The universe is not
against US, but for us. Everything is organ
lied on the side of right. Ever law is
dained in its interest. The forces that make
for righteousness are the strongest in the
world, and all on the side of the well-doer.
The divine spirit is all about us. There is
life not our own that meets and touches US.
''Some trust in chariots and some in horses
said the psalmist, "but / will remember the
name of the Lord, my God" Make use of all
the bright and cheerful things that life and
society afford. This world is not a vale of
tears. We shall not make our prospects for
another world any better by despsing this
one. Never lose sight Of lifes grand and
solemn moral purpose. but remember that
none can achieve it who work detected and
melancholy, and on the constant verge of
giving up in despair. There are times when
an opera is quite as much ''means of grace
as a sermon. Anything bright and cheerful
to break the monotony OF the mind that is
chained to its daily tasks, or that broods over
its misfortunes.